09-10-2007, 06:56 PM
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September 10th
1846 ~ Elias Howe of Spencer, Mass., received a patent for the sewing machine.
1939 ~ World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley was sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Trition off the coast of Norway and became the first loss of the Royal Navy.
1942 ~ Birthday of Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist.
1943 ~ World War II: German forces began their occupation of Rome.
1945 ~ Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.
1960 ~ Birthday of Colin Firth, Actor (Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually).
1971 ~ Death of Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union.
1977 ~ Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of murder, became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France.
1990 ~ The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world, consecrated by Pope John Paul II.
2000 ~ British paratroopers rescued six held hostage by the "West Side Boys".
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